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Job title: IT Contract and Vendor Relationship Management Specialist
Company: Marberg Staffing
Job description: IT Contract and Vendor Relationship Management Specialist for provincial government agency.
Job #1075.
Job Type: Temporary, initial term to April 16, 2021.
Compensation: $61.09 per hour.
Hours: Regular business hours.
Work location: Remote; may transfer to onsite downtown Toronto work location in the future.
Responsibilities
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to negotiate and execute contracts.
- Manage external company relationships and contracts, from RFP to contract renewal and / or termination.
- Will participate in development of RFPs, contract negotiation and change requests, and work with internal IT team to establish IT service level requirements and performance targets to achieve business objectives.
- Identify and implement cost saving measures while maintaining or improving vendor’s performance and service quality.
- Implement effective sourcing management performance targets, processes and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with contracts; identify risks and provide reports on vendor performance.
- Maintain contract documents.
- Implement sourcing policy, incorporating industry best practices such as ITIL, COBIT, CORE, and ISO 38500 work input from staff and legal counsel.
- Monitor service level targets and other metrics to achieve business objectives while balancing costs.
- Facilitate appropriate performance targets for third party vendors. Identify and implement solutions to address gaps in vendor performance targets.
- Oversee vendor relationships including participating in any vendor oversight meetings.
- Conduct annual reviews of vendor performance and ensure contractual compliance.
- Maintain vendor records.
- Coordinate with internal procurement and legal teams as needed.
- Negotiate with the vendors to resolve contractual conflicts.
- Work with internal accounting to ensure vendor financial processes in compliance with contract and contractual payments are up to date.
- Perform research into insourcing/outsourcing trends and issues.
- Additional related responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field.
- 5+ years of government/public sector contracts administration experience.
- 5+ years IT contracts management experience.
- Certification in ITIL framework preferred.
- Certification in vendor management practices (e.g. CORE) or contract management.
- Proficiency using data metrics
- Superior analysis, problem solving and risk assessment skills and experience.
- Superior attention to detail to spot errors and inconsistencies.
- Excellent reading and language comprehension.
- Proven management and leadership skills.
- Superior oral and written communication skills.
- Superior time management skills.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a high performance team environment.
- Commitment to stewardship of organizational values, principles and best practices.
- Satisfactory criminal background check and employment references.
We thank all applicants for their interest but wish to advise that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Expected salary: $61.09 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Job date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:33:56 GMT
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